1 in every 8 people in the world live with a mental disorder

1 in every 8 people in the world live with a mental disorder

I've been struggling with bipolar disorder since I was 16 years old, but I was diagnosed at 18.

I've been struggling with bipolar disorder since I was 16 years old, but I was diagnosed at 18.

Sofía Román

ADHDinos is a webcomic about the daily struggles I (and many others) experience with ADHD. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and felt like I was on my own.

ADHDinos is a webcomic about the daily struggles I (and many others) experience with ADHD. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and felt like I was on my...

ADHDinos

Artist Phil Wall, aka Never Stay Dead, has been working on a series that's very close to them. To educate both themselves and their followers, Never Stay Dead has been illustrating disorders and mental illnesses as monsters, following people like shadows...

Artist Phil Wall, aka Never Stay Dead, has been working on a series that's very close to them. To educate both themselves and their followers, Never Stay Dead has been illustrating...

Documenting my experiences with anxiety has been therapeutic. What I love most is finding others who relate and say my comics have helped them feel less alone.

Documenting my experiences with anxiety has been therapeutic. What I love most is finding others who relate and say my comics have helped them feel less alone.

Jake Giddens

Every once in a while, we hear someone say "autism didn't exist before vaccines" or "so many people are depressed, this rarely happened a couple of hundred years ago". And while sometimes such phrases might seem to have a point, often...

Every once in a while, we hear someone say "autism didn't exist before vaccines" or "so many people are depressed, this rarely happened a couple of hundred years ago". And while...

Giedrė Vaičiulaitytė

I am an artist who works to give mental health awareness a voice as I portray various mental and social issues through little doodles of stickmen in an ongoing project called the Stickmen's Series. I spend a lot of time alone with...

I am an artist who works to give mental health awareness a voice as I portray various mental and social issues through little doodles of stickmen in an ongoing project called...

Riftress

This is my take on how mental conflict might look when you try illustrating it. And after 50 hours of paper-cutting, this is how it looked! I’m Elen, a paper artist based in Abu Dhabi. I have always been fascinated by paper.

This is my take on how mental conflict might look when you try illustrating it. And after 50 hours of paper-cutting, this is how it looked! I’m Elen, a paper artist based...

Elen Preann

Every year thousands of artists get involved in Inktober, where for 31 days of October, you ink a drawing for each day. I decided to go off the usual prompt and focus on mental illnesses and disorders.

Every year thousands of artists get involved in Inktober, where for 31 days of October, you ink a drawing for each day. I decided to go off the usual prompt and focus...

Shawn Coss